--- title: Do not follow each trip of the dog: only ask how long it runs. — The dog that runs back and forth · tree and pragmatics description: Do not follow each trip of the dog: only ask how long it runs. Who acts: you, trip. A sentence of the lesson «The dog that runs back and forth» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/170-the-dog-between-two-walkers/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / [The dog that runs back and forth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/170-the-dog-between-two-walkers/) / 0 # The dog that runs back and forth, sentence 0 Do not follow each trip of the dog: only ask how long it runs. **Who acts:** you, trip · **What happens:** not follow, ask, run, trip · **To what, where:** trip, dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The dog that runs back and forth» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, trip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:170-the-dog-between-two-walkers.lesson:0 # text = Do not follow each trip of the dog: only ask how long it runs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 170-the-dog-between-two-walkers.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 follow follow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 13 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **follow** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | each trip of the dog | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **run** | present | trip | | | | | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **trip** | | | the dog | | | | | nom trip «act transitive»: of=patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:lessons:170-the-dog-between-two-walkers.lesson:0`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Working alone first, then together, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/169-a-team-joins-later/2/) - next →: [The dog that runs back and forth, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/170-the-dog-between-two-walkers/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/170-the-dog-between-two-walkers/)